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Word: rodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he was off to the American Legion County Fair- his 12th in twelve years. He rode to it on the folded top of a roadster, waving his new hat. At the fair his chair was on a raised platform. He leaned over its railing to grasp hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Out among the People | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Trial Run | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Publisher Johnson started the Negro Digest-three years ago with the help of a white executive editor, Ben Burns, 31, who has the same title on Ebony, Negro Digest rode the pocket magazines' popularity wave to a 110,000 circulation, gave Publisher Johnson enough profits to start Ebony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Brighter Side | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Prince Thag rode through the Valley of Euphoria, and birds sang "verti verti verti go." In the Forest of Jeopardy, he slew the Blue Boar (it was sound asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures In Thurberland | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Prince Gallow rode through a magic wood hung with signs: "7 League Boots Now 6.98"; "Seek Grailo, Even Better Than the True Grail." Defying the "roaring . . . Tarcomed [and] the surly Nacilbuper" (The White Deer's proper nouns sometimes read best backwards). The Prince passed the Moaning Grove of Artanis and bested the famed Seven-headed Dragon. This wasn't really such a bold feat, because the Dragon ran by clockwork, and the Prince bribed the mechanic not to wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures In Thurberland | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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